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How to pronounce sickening in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile
Derivation sickeningness


a sickening stench.

Examples of sickening

sickening
As of Friday, the cause of the sickening smell remained a mystery, Voelpel said.
From the thenewstribune.com
It is sickening to think about what these terrorists are doing across the globe.
From the economist.com
It is sickening that so many lack empathy and take delight in cruelty to others.
From the independent.co.uk
Their world is each other, which is really sweet or really sickening, depending.
From the usatoday.com
Our league form has been pretty strong, apart from the sickening loss to United.
From the guardian.co.uk
Nationally, 86,000 mortgage jobs were cut in 2007 because of a sickening market.
From the businessweek.com
What we need is a real leap forward and get rid of our sickening national pride.
From the guardian.co.uk
What the government is doing to the University sector is quite simply sickening.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hi Hugh, I agree, the waste of fish lives associated with discards is sickening.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Nauseating: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
  • (sickeningly) disgustingly: in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree; "the beggar was disgustingly filthy"
  • (sickeningness) disgustingness: extreme unpalatability to the mouth
  • Causing sickness or disgust
  • (adj.): incredibly amazing; excessively hot (see also fierce)
  • Disgust: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
  • Get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
  • Upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
  • Make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"